Kourradi v. Christopher

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The brief also included incomplete legal citations accompanied by unintelligible numeric strings (e.g., “2990836”). We again struck Kourradi’s appellate brief and ordered Kourradi to file a corrected brief. We admonished Kourradi to ensure that record references and citations to authorities are accurate. See Campbell v. Campbell, No. 03-25-00388-CV, 2026 WL 179402, at *2 n.3 (Tex. App.—Austin Jan. 22, 2026, no pet.) (mem. op.) (admonishing appellant to “take care not to include hallucinated citations, quotations, or authorities of any kind in the materials that he submits for filing in this Court”). ... More concerningly, we are unable to locate the following legal authorities on which Kourradi relies when using the citation format he provides: • Ruth Wheeler v. John Collier Hinson, No. 07-10-00308-CV, 2011 WL 1905858 (Tex. App.—Amarillo May 19, 2011, no pet.) (mem. op.) • David Lee Carpenter, Jr. v. Sharon K. Carpenter, No. 09-11-00414-CV, 2012 WL 2370823 (Tex. App.—Beaumont July 5, 2012, no pet.) (mem. op.) • Brazos Valley Roadrunners, LLC v. Brian Niles, No. 03-21-00523-CV, 2022 WL 1938866, at *4 (Tex. App.—Austin June 1, 2022, no pet.) (mem. op.) ... The database identifiers are non-existent, and the appellate case numbers point us to appeals that involve parties different from the parties listed in the citations provided by Kourradi. ... The nature of the errors suggests that each of the foregoing legal citations is, at best, partially fabricated.

Authorities cited in the passage: Campbell v. Campbell, 2026 WL 179402 (Tex. App.—Austin Jan. 22, 2026) · Ruth Wheeler v. John Collier Hinson, 2011 WL 1905858 · David Lee Carpenter, Jr. v. Sharon K. Carpenter, 2012 WL 2370823 · Brazos Valley Roadrunners, LLC v. Brian Niles, 2022 WL 1938866 · George Jamil Wehbe v. State, 2011 WL 1742356 · Tex. R. App. P. 38.1 · Tex. R. App. P. 38.9 · Tex. R. App. P. 42.3